Hi HN – we just made Searchcraft Core available on Docker Hub!

If you’ve ever been frustrated by the complexity or bloat of Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, Searchcraft might be for you. We’re building a fast, lightweight search engine focused purely on content and vertical discovery – not log search, not analytics, just damn good content search.

• Rust-powered engine • Typo-tolerant + fuzzy search out of the box • Front-end SDKs for JS, React, and Vue • Now available as a single tiny Docker image (94% smaller than Elastic)

Searchcraft Core is totally free to run locally or self-host. Need extra features, support, or a hosted option? We’ve got those too.

▶ Here’s a demo our co-founder, Don, filmed where he loads English Wikipedia onto a Raspberry Pi and still gets <10ms fuzzy search: https://youtu.be/SjuPn6_yl2s

If you’re building something that needs search, give it a try and let us know what’s missing — we’re actively listening and feature requests are welcome on Discord.

Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/searchcraftinc/searchcraft-core Discord: https://discord.gg/y3zUHkBk6e Website: https://searchcraft.io/